Website Resources

Click on the websites below to access resources on the Lenin coursework:

The Tsarist System, 1898-1905

Russia 1898-1914

The 1905 Revolution
1905 Revolution from Spartacus
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1905_russian_revolution.htm
Causes of 1905 Revolution

General Pages

http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php

• Russian History 1905-30
• Russia: From revolution to counter-revolution
• Leon Trotsky's THE STALIN SCHOOL OF FALSIFICATION
• Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution
• Quotes from the Russian Revolution
• The Russian Revolution in Dates
• Anarchist page with links to articles on the Russian Revolution
• http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/documents/

The October Revolution

• THE FIRST PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
• Telegram from the American Consulate in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917
• The Russian Revolution A Gallery Of Photos
• October 1917, Was Stalinism implicit in the Boshevik Revolution Deals with the first months of Bolshevik rule
• The Russian Revolution of 1917
• Soviet Law on Land: Feb 1918
• Workers control in the Russian Revolution (Solidarity)
• The Balance Sheet of October a Trotskyist View
• The History of the Russian Revolutionby Trotsky
• Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution - how the revolution degenerated
• The Russian Revolution of 1917: A Guide to Electoral Behavior in Revolutionary Russia
• Krupskaya's "Reminiscences of Lenin"

Terror and Civil War

• Lenin sends letter to Penza ordering repression
• Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
• Demands of the workers of the metallurgical plant in Motovilikha
• Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution - how the revolution degenerated
• Sokolov's Account of the Murder of the Romanovs
• The Kronstadt Uprising 1921Ida Mett
• Alexander Berkman on KRONSTADT
• This page on Victor Serge includes several short extracts from his writings on this period
• From Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Victor Serge
• THE KRONSTADT UPRISING OF 1921by Brian R. Train

Biographies

• A set of biographical articles on leading Bolsheviks by Lunacharsky
• A COMPARISON OF THE EDITIONS OF LUNACHARSKY'S SILHOUETTES
• A Short Biography of V. I. Lenin
• Alexandra Kollontai
• Sokolov's Account of the Murder of the Romanovs
• Images of Leading Socialist Revolutionaries
• Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
• Victor Serge-The Bolsheviks' pet anarchist
• The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism by Peter Sedgwick

Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries

• THE TWO RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS Assesses Trotsky's role in the faction debates of the Social Democrats
• Mensheviks' Critique of BolshevismArgues that as Marxists the Mensheviks couldn't be democrats. Also see Dynamic counterfactual correlations a reply.
• Anarchism and the Russian Revolution
• Images of Leading Socialist Revolutionaries
• Programme of the Socialist Revolutionary Party from John Slatter

Images and Maps

• Maps of Russia and Petrograd
• The Russian Revolution A Gallery Of PhotosOne of the pictures is of Kerensky, however, (unless I'm very much mistaken) Kerensky is not the man in the white uniform but the man in front of him, looking grim.
• Images of Leading Socialist Revolutionaries

Postmortems, lessons and comments

• Was there an alternative to Stalinism? This is from a Trotskyist perspective
• Did Lenin lead to Stalin?This from an anarchist perspective
• Beyond Kronstadt - the Bolsheviks in power
• How Lenin Saw the Revolution in 1921
• How Trotsky saw the Revolution in 1924 and it's result in 1936

THE TWO RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS, and once again, on the Theory of Permanent Revolution Assessing Trotsky's role

• Lenin's Testament Just before his death Lenin told the party to remove Stalin.

• POWER STRATIFICATION IN THE SOVIET-TYPE SYSTEM
• Internal Workings of the Soviet System
• Ukrainian Famine 1932-33
• Russian History
• Early USSR: November 1917 through to January of 1924.